Art and Artists

Maggie Connell is the 2013 Digital Color Artist.

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan) — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 05:58:00 +0000

Maggie Connell
Maggie Connell is the 2013 Digital Color Artist.

Maggie has now been painting seriously for a decade and a half. Her six week exhibition, Living with Wolves, is on display at the Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery in New South Wales. The purpose of that exhibition is to create works about a fun and colorful life with dogs.

Over time, she has had varying styles. Her moving oil paintings of owls, robins, magpies and other birds are from the world and also after photos of Steve Parish and Dave Watts. Some of her earlier paintings are of happy colorful naive style people. She has also painted portraits, still life and scenery and has exhibited drawings on paper and oils on metal.

Recently, under the influence of Mark Tobey's densely structured compositions, she uses writing and symbols as a basis for watercolor paintings. She has a gallery of still life metaphors including those titled: The Fall From Grace, An Enduring Relationship, Gossip, An Integrated Group and The Third Cup of Wine. The third cup of wine drank the man.

She has formally studied drawing, printmaking, painting and sculpture. She attended Tafe in Alice Springs and for a term, at Broken Hill and created art using these media at that time.

Exhibit 2013
Exhibit 2013 is an exhibit of paintings which have passed the test of time.
They bring even more to the year 2013 than they did to the years in which they were painted.
Included are many paintings by Maggie and by Gilbert Abric.

Gilbert paints watercolors in a realistic style.His perception of searching light effects is revealed through renditions of transparent objects, reflections and snow. Other subjects that bring this out are marine and interior settings, fabric and greenhouses. And also, Lyon landscapes, monuments, people, the night, flowers and fruits. Looking at his watercolors creates a vibration in the mind.

Excellent portfolios from artists from, the Denmark, Canada, South Africa, the U.S., Portugal Turkey and Syria are shown as well. digitalconsciousness.com/exhibit/

New Artists
Welcome to these artists, new to Digital Consciousness:

Harriet Jameson Pellizzari, watercolors of old buildings of District Six and woman, and large acrylics on canvas, from South Africa.
Mary Michela, fine artist and arts educator in Ventura, California for over 50 years. Known for her bold yet delicate paintings and serigraphs.
John Charles Beckett, mixed media Medieval fantasy, from the UK.
Maris Mauro, one of the most original Florentine painters working today.
Luciano Paesani, acrylic abstracts of people, portraits and characters. Art studies in Brazil.
Gary Rohrabaugh, exploring illusions. The use of optical illusions in art.
Ajit Soni, realistic oils from India.
Glenn Davis Doctor G, photography.
Alessandro Nicolini, acrylic visionary modern art from Tuscany.
Rey Marz, surrealistic landscape and nature drawings.
Akelo - Andrea Cagnetti, sculpture, Jewelry. In a object can be enclosed all the infinite beauty of the cosmos.
Josh Goehring, impressionistic oil cityscapes.
Nikolai Bartossik, acrylic expressionistic, Informal-Nudes.
Anna Zygmunt Pietrek, expressionistic, contemporary, abstract oils from Poland.
Immo Jalass, visionary digital art cityscapes from the Netherlands.
Kim Olson, travel images of landscapes, cityscapes and nature.
Adela Arrufat, realistic oil still life, from Spain.
Keren SouzaKohn, expressionistic drawings and oils of people and still life, from Israel.
Ian Ely, landscapes and nature photography.
Zvonimir Vladanovic, surrealistic digital art from Italy.
Chris Stefanis, realistic acrylic landscapes from Australia.
Aleksey Motorin (1924 - 2004), realistic oil landscapes from Russia.
Jalai Lama, visionary digital art.
Evgeniy Shibanov, drawings from Russia.
Cynnocence Kaufman-Sinclair, encaustic light and color abstracts.
Victoria Page Miller, realistic wildlife, florals and portraits done in watermedia.
Jonathan Knight, bronze animal sculptures.
Sergey Kryshtapovich, mural painting from Belarus.
Showey Howey, environmentalist and fiber artist.
Sylvia Herrington, abstract light and color watercolors.
Costea Claudia, visionary oil portraits from Romania.
Ac Satya Shah, animated characters from India.
Eva Fidjeland, expressionistic animals and wildlife from Sweden.
Sergio Milani, art toy collectibles from Italy.
Antoni L Swiatecki, realistic acrylic landscapes from Canada.
David Quinn, abstract cityscapes from Ireland.
Rosa Sauer, photography. Capturing people and their memories at their happiest moments.
Michelle LeLeux, spiritual acrylics with a colorful Southwestern feel.
Joan Domenech, photography. Gyclee technique and pigmented inks.
Cecilia Rosslee, impressionistic interiors and still life.

Sandro Bisonni, a dramatic, natural, magical world with intense, fiery brushstrokes.
Dusan Jovanovic, surrealistic landscapes and nature from Italy.
Liviu Bora, fantasy sculpture from Romania.
Anupam Pal, mixed media abstracts from India.
Nazish Chunara, patterns, objects and still life. Living life on the edge of a swirl. The science of curved angles.
Patrick Burke, the collective unconscious.
Michael O'Gorman, complex, surreal oil paintings.
Vincent Rijs, photography from the Netherlands.
Pietro Uguagliati, impressionistic oil landscapes.
Maurizio Isernia, photographer -- light , the messenger of the visible, from Italy.
Charline Lancel, digital art and geometric shapes from Belgium.

Updates
Our programs have been updated for the first time in several years.
The updates include thumbnail displays in the gallery editor and the ability for all the artists to upload short Audio Visual files.

Happy New Year 2014

Ricky Huloe is the 2012 Digital Color Artist

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:01:00 +0000

Happy New Year 2012.

Ricky Huloe.
Ricky Huloe is the 2012 Digital Color Artist. Ricky creates public spiritual conscience art. Group consciousness and connectivity to all living beings resonates from his art. His works are influenced by unity, divinity and the ancient Mayans. His part in our galactic collective makes us one. We are one community. We are all superbeings.

Ricky paints large pieces with acrylics on wood, metal, cement, canvas and the unknown ether. His work is everywhere, in shows, in remote spots and in cities. His message is universal: give love deep into the roots of your soul.

New Artists
Welcome to these artists, new to Digital Consciousness:

Bronwyn Woodley Graham. An eternal fascination with light: the effects with various pigments, the source and color of the light, and the way in which it either falls on or emanates from various subjects.
Mary Agarwal. A perspective artist with a background in architecture and fine arts.
Ali Pournoroozy, from Sweden. Art characterized by a passion for nature and birds.
Jaison Cianelli. Abstract landscape paintings expressing his joy of life with others.
Todd Fox. Acrylic surrealistics.
Edward B. Gordon. Painting daily and publishing online. More than 1600 paintings so far.
Tom De Boeck, from Belgium. Abstract oils.
Rajiv Arts, from India. Photo-realistic digital people, portraits and characters.
Eric Bossik. Portraits of adults, children and pets.
Rachael Bennett. Luminal spaces within landscapes; descriptive of form, light and place in an atmospheric way.
Snake Jagger. Whimsical surrealism. Compositional inspiration from Rene Magritte convinces us to accept the entire image, regardless of its disparities, as a wholly realistic depiction.
Sandro Taliani, from Italy. Figurative conceptual acrylics.
Dhiir Kumar, from India. Anchor, standup comedian and mimicry artist known as the copycat of Imran Hashm.
Rudolf Wiedemann. Impressionistic oil landscapes.
Christopher Stone, from Spain. One of the world's foremost stone carvers in the Direct style, an approach to making carved sculpture introduced by Brancusi in 1906.
Karl Joseph Kenda (1923 - 1980.) During the sixties and seventies, Karl had his own gallery in Miami. Psychedelic, spiritual or surrealistic paintings, all of them colorful, unique and thought-provoking. They are on masonite and canvas. He applied acrylics with a brush and palette knife. His paintings reflect world perils of earlier times yet still resonate today.
David Holzman. Visionary portraits. His work has appeared in Graphis Magazine and his Love poster in the Museum of Modern Art, NYC (MOMA) in 1960.
Deborah Crofts. Abstract figurative paintings inspired by a mixture of environmental concerns.
Bo Bakker, from the Netherlands. Monumental Art, record sleeves, illustrations for various magazines and a series of life sized portraits of women.
Khachik Hovhannissyan, from Armenia. Abstract oils.
Giovanni Greco, from Italy. Theatrical and metaphysical. Fundamental problems which do not leave our mind or stage.
Emmanuele Duclot-Haillot, from France. Intimate drawings.
Sue Skitt. Mixed media fine art photography. The power of object to bear witness to intangible ideas and emotional truths.
Antonio Nodar. Post Cards from Year 2222, a photographic sci-fi story. The heating of the planet, sand storms, the extreme sunlight filtered through the frozen clouds, and the change in the magnetic fields, will transform the colors and perception of things around us.
Erella Teitler. Collage, mixed media, altered books and monoprints.
Andrea Raft. Earthen hues, textures and overlapping layers with a quiet, serene meditative quality.
Mel Alexenberg. The interface between art, science and culture. Space-time systems and electronic technologies.
Bart Soutendijk. Murals for public, commercial, and residential locations made out of wire.
Kendra Dixson, from Canada. Watercolors.
Tony Fredriksson. Driftwood sculptures.
Nabeel Muaddi. Deconstruction of the boundaries and injustices that prevail in culture and society.
Eimear Brennan, from Ireland. Drawing.
Anima Somnia, from Spain. Gothic photography, textures and digital painting.
K. Dawne Holmes. Custom motorcycle airbrush, photorealistic painting and metal fabrication.
Greta Perez. Abstract Cuban figures.

Jeremy Robinson

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan) — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:39:00 +0000

Jeremy "Maya" Robinson is the 2011 Digital Color Artist. Jeremy often paints live amidst groups of people. Sometimes while he is painting, a calligraphist writes a meaningful phrase on the artwork in a foreign language. Jeremy sometimes paints on people who sit for hours to be adorned.

Many of his pictures are made in phases. The first phase being, just making a simple drawing or painting. He uses colored pencils and pens, technical art pens, gel pens and markers. And also gouache/watercolor paint, acrylic paint and other paints.

The next phase is prints or copies. In making them he may use digital filters or machines to adjust color saturation, contrast, negative/position orientation and brightness. And, also, semi-transparent materials like cloth and paper. Sometimes he moves the original drawing while the copy is being made or draws on the copies or tears the copies into pieces for collage. Once he has a print the process starts over: Collage of collage of collage for many many generations of images. Making artwork through phases like this allows Jeremy to get effects that would not otherwise be possible.

He says "The more I make art in this way the more art there is to make in this way."

Jeremy is a lover of plants, a musician and a traveler. He is available for murals, illustrations, portraits, design work and other commissions.

New Artists
Please welcome these new artists:

1. Giacobbe Luigi. Overlooking. Abstract mixed media from Italy.
2. Olesya Novik. Fantasy from the Ukraine.
3. Emily Dewbre-Young. Sculpture, pyrography and carving.

See http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/ anytime for new artists and artists with new art.

News from the Artists
Harlan Gruber exhibited the skeleton of his Peridot Portal at Circle of Bliss in March 2011. It combines his Diamond Portal's golden ratio based design, with the pentagram plan of the Amethyst Portal, so it has five points instead of two. http://www.transportals.org/

Mahendra Bhatt, Judy Puckett and Arkady Zrazhevsky have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

Digital Consciousness News

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan) — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 03:02:00 +0000

New Artists

Please welcome these new artists:

Sylvester Engbrox. Characters moving through strange atmospheres, from France.
Helen Cusack. Realistic oil cityscapes of London and the river Thames.
Johny Alives. Metaphotography to scanography.
Hugo Martinez Rapari. Glass sculpture from Uruguay.
Arkady Zrazhevsky. Landscape and still-life drawing from Russia.
Rayanda Arts. Geometric abstraction and playful nudes from Canada.
Ted Ellis. Passionate folk paintings of the culture of New Orleans.
Martin Koetsier. Geometrical color harmony from the Netherlands.
Melissa Ann Lambert. New media. Light boxes and pixelated surfaces.
Alexandra Orton. Vibrantly colored surreal fish paintings.
Eric Adama. Mixed media on paper.
Ajayi Olaitan. Impressionistic watercolors from Nigeria.
Eva Kryshtapovich. Mystical oils from Belarus.
Hans Leip. Surrealistic acrylics from the Netherlands.
Elaine Griffith. Art teaching methods.
Iouri Galitchenko. Abstract-figurative paintings from Belgium.
Souel Marawi. Expressionistic oils from Cyprus.
Cbogatean Calin Bogatean. Iconography from Romania.
Zdenko Radovanic. Shadows and blank figures from Croatia.
Edward Sherman. Photography of Harlem street scenes and musicians.
Karen Parker. Still life compositions.
Jacopo Zanin. Surrealistic fractals.
Funism Folk Art by Sal Marino. Visionary characters.
Shaista Nadaf. Abstract light and color oil pastels from India.
Katarina Fagerstrom Levring. Abstract photo impressionism from Sweden.
Lynette LT Carter. Visionary digital art.
Juan Carlos Guzman. Acrylic portraits from Argentina.
Tim McMullen. Ceramics and pottery.
Jimmy Devasia. Humorous illustration from India.
Michelle A. duPlessis. Abstract landscapes from South Africa.
Nikolay Karacharov. Landscapes and nature from Russia.
Ruzaick Rushan. Landscape pastels from Sri Lanka.
Conn Hutzel. Grandson photography.
Samuel Junior. Landscapes from Ghana.
Alessandro Rinaldi. Airbrush from Italy.
Aashish Kamble. Actor from India.
April Turner. Mixed media from Germany.
Vondo Sharma. Oils on canvas.
Gabriel Salgado Salgado. Wedding performances from Mexico.
Willi Bauer. Impressionistic landscapes from Germany.
Adam Hemuss. Exhibitions from England.
Shadreck Mpofu. Still life painting from Zimbabwe.
Mitesh Jain. Choreographer and DJ from India.
Fei Chunii Lee. Drawing from Canada.

See http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/ anytime for new artists and artists with new art.

Exhibiting your Artwork

Registered Artists can use the Edit link at the bottom of their Artist Page to edit their display.
It is inconspicuous in the background under the main table. Payment for Gallery Service is voluntary for 2011.
If you are a Registered Artist who has not yet exhibited in our on-line galleries, just email us.
We will gladly set it up for you whether or not you donate.
If you have Gallery Service that expires, and want to reactivate, let us know and we will do it.
The galleries contain no ads and are among the most prominent pages on Digital Consciousness.

News from the Artists

Thom Millsap is exhibiting his work in Sarasota, Naples, Marco Island and West Palm Beach Florida this spring.
http://www.millsapfineart.web.officelive.com

Gilbert Abric, DanCiva, Nese Ikbal Sen, Kurt Van Wagner, Lise Boucher, Donna C. Willis, Derek McCrea and Kevin Barr have added new artwork to their galleries.
http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

2011 Featured Artist

Nominations for the 2011 Featured Artist remain open.

http://renownedart.com/digitalcolor/nomform.php

The artist awarded this honor will be announced in the next newsletter.

New in the Directory

Google Art Project. Discover featured artworks at high resolution and use the custom viewer to zoom into paintings.
Studio Vogue Gallery. Canadian & International Art. One of Toronto's most unique venues for Mid-Career and Emerging Artists.
beinArt. Surreal Art Collective: the ever expanding online gallery of surreal, psychedelic and visionary artists.
Irving Norman. San Francisco Bay Area artist, Irving Norman (1906-1989.) His highly detailed paintings are powerful critiques of contemporary life and times.

http://digitalconsciousness.net/directory/

Global Gatherings and Art Events

Gatherings can be the most artistic endeavors imaginable. Probably, even beyond one's imagination. Unless, of course, one is there to witness and participate.
Digital Consciousness has noted the most meaningful gatherings in the world. You can sort them by name or time.
http://DigitalConsciousness.com/media/

This year, consider attending these wonderful monthly Southern California Art Walks: the Laguna Beach, Santa Barbara and San Pedro Art Walks (all 1st Thursdays),
the Downtown Los Angeles Artwalk (2nd Thursdays), the Highland Park Art Walk (2nd Saturdays) and the Venice Art Crawl (3rd Thursdays).
For details and many more listings, follow the links at: http://nanday.com/art

Carol Henry

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan) — Fri, 21 May 2010 01:33:00 +0000

The Summer 2010 Digital Color Artist is Carol Henry. Carol is a fine art photographer who does not use a camera. She projects light in the darkroom to create images of unique clarity and saturation. She prints on the archival darkroom material known as Ilfochrome paper. She has been perfecting this experimental process for more than 20 years. She is known for her one-of-a-kind botanicals.

Carol has also painted a series of portraits of Barack Obama that tracks his administration through art. The series is known as the Obama Painting Project. It is about abilities, ideas, and ideals converging to leave a visual record of our changing planet.

Carol Henry's work often reveals playful compositions of water related imagery and thoughtful abstraction. She graduated from Northern Michigan University in Marquette with a BFA in photography. She continued exploring the art of light transmission in her Ilfochrome darkroom at the Lab Ciba in Burbank. She is represented in California by: the Ansel Adams Gallery, Yosemite, Photography West, Carmel and the Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach. Her studio is located in the historic Whizin's Center Arcade in Agoura Hills, California.

New Contemporary Artists
Welcome to these newly registered artists:

1. Walt Chaney. Watercolors. A background in commercial sculpture and toy art.
2. Mamta Herland. Painting, digital art and video from Norway.
3. John Currin. A dark morphing of subject and medium.
4. Edwin Villavera. Bright watercolor and oil impressions.
5. Pia N8sheim. Warm mystical art from Germany.
6. Helena Szawlowska Human beings, covered by a mild fog. From the Czech Republic.
7. Carol P Kingsley. A beautiful array of light and shadows.
8. Gary James. Ballpoint pen works are of the stipple pointillist tradition.
9. Igor Gustini. Abstracts from Croatia.
10. Atelier Aant-seize Collectif. Life of African women photos.
11. Made gede Suardika. Iron, steel and meteorite sculpture from Indonesia.
12. Wesley Rowe. Watercolors, airbrush, oils, digital photos and silkscreen.
13. Christopher Paul. Light and color acrylic abstracts.
14. Michelle Wrighton. Up close pet portraits from Australia.
15. Linda Paul. Egg tempera painter and bas-relief sculptor.
16. Simon Kontarge. Classical Italian manner portraits and psychological surrealism.
17. Jude Thaut. Brush and blade landscapes.
18. Marco Ambrosini. Trompe l'oeil and affresco from Italy.
19. Craig Hitchens. The auras of living beings from Australia.
20. Nikolay Lukashuk. Realistic landscapes from Russia.
21. Thom Millsap. Impressionistic acrylic seascapes, still life and landscapes.
22. Edward Myers. A generalist photographer and printmaker.
23. Carol Henry. Projection on Ilfochrome. Fine art photography without a camera.

To view their work click on their name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/ or enter it at http://DigitalConsciousness.com

New Galleries
Gilbert Abric, Jason Jenkins, Marijan Gal, Nirvana Blues, Kevin Barr, Nese Ikbal Sen, Barbara Rose Guada and Judy Puckett have added new artwork to their galleries: http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

News from the Artists
The geniuses behind the Mutant Vehicle Photo Booth are going mobile themselves. They are building a rolling studio with a 16 foot high climbable tripod. It will not have a fabric backdrop, or any backdrop at all, except of course the varying themes of the metropolis.

Southern California Art Events
This summer, consider visiting these art walks, gallery nights, festivals and studio tours:

* Jun 3, 2010 Santa Barbara Art Walk (monthly)
* Jun 4, 2010 First Fridays Ventura (monthly)
* Jun 5, 2010 ArtWalk Culver City
* Jun 5-6, 2010 Conejo Valley Art Museum (Thousand Oaks) ArtWalk
* Jun 10, 2010 Downtown Los Angeles Artwalk (monthly)
* Jun 12, 2010 NELAart - Northeast L.A. Gallery Night (monthly)
* Jun 19-20, 2010 Pasadena Chalk Festival
* Jul 2010 Malibu Arts Festival
* Jul 1, 2010 Laguna Beach First Thursdays Art Walk (monthly)
* Jul 2, 2010 First Fridays Long Beach (monthly)
* Jul 3-4, 2010 Pine Knot Village Art Walk (Big Bear Lake)
* Jul 10, 2010 Montrose-Verdugo City Art Walk
* Jul 17, 2010 Miracle Mile Art Walk
* Jul 24, 2010 Glendale Open Studio Tour
* Jul 31, 2010 Pomona Last Saturday Art Walk (monthly)
* Aug 5, 2010 El Paseo Artwalk (Palm Desert) (monthly)
* Aug 6, 2010 Claremont Village Art Walk (monthly)
* Aug 7, 2010 Santa Ana Artwalk (monthly)
* Aug 14, 2010 Long Beach Art Walk (monthly)
* Aug 21, 2010 Santiago Art District Art Walk (Santa Ana) (monthly)
* Aug 28, 2010 Frogtown Artwalk
* Sep 2010 Autumn Lights LA
* Sep 2, 2010 1st Thursday Downtown San Pedro (monthly)
* Sep 25, 2010 Santa Monica Glow Festival

For details and many more listings, follow the links at: http://nanday.com/art

Hopefully these will be as wonderful as the events spring. Highlights include the Angel's Gate Studio Tour (in San Pedro,) the Santa Fe Open Studios, and the Laguna and Santa Barbara Art Walks. At Angel's Gate, one artist created fantastical ceramic musical instruments. As she played one, it emitted many sounds reminiscent of various other instruments, from a flute to a didgeridoo. She played another one which sounded like electronic feedback. And one was a two-person instrument, each blowing into opposite ends while standing and crouching, with a ball rolling inside to change pitch as the instrument's relative elevation changed.

Santa Fe Walk Through was also very good. One artist had an impressive huge papier-mache elephant head and leg coming out of the wall. A light/video artist had a video playing which from a distance looked like horses galloping. Upon closer examination, one discovers that it's actually made up of many human hands and fingers collaged together.

In Laguna, the art museum, featuring a survey of contemporary art and culture in the OC, had a few unusual pieces, including one in an unlimited edition, with viewers allowed to take one home. It was a printout of all of the punctuation and spaces from M. L. King's "I Have a Dream" speech. Also, a favorite piece was a tree sculpture with many electronic abstractly bird-like objects in the branches. At seemingly random times, some or all of the "birds" would flap their "wings".

In Santa Barbara the art museum featured an exhibit "Delacroix to Monet: Masterpieces of 19th-Century Painting from the Walters Art Museum" (in Baltimore). It included works by Pissarro, Degas, Millet and many others. It's always great to see new Monets and Pissarros, but the favorite piece was a cafe scene by Manet. Outside the museum was a group performing Celtic music. The Granada theater is a beautifully restored place, which had an interesting exhibit with photo portraits of famous musicians, actors, dancers, and other personalities such as The Beatles, Rudolph Nureyev, Paul Newman, and Michael Jackson.

Exhibiting your Artwork
Registered Artists can use the Edit link at the bottom of their Artist Page to edit their display. It is inconspicuous in the background under the main table. Artists with Digital Consciousness Gallery Service can create and edit on-line galleries from a control panel. These galleries contain no ads and are among the most prominent pages on Digital Consciousness.

Nese Ikbal Sen

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:15:00 +0000

The February 2010 Digital Color Artist of the Month is Nese Ikbal Sen (b. 1956)
Nese was born in Manisa, Turkey. He holds postgraduate degrees in business and has worked as a teacher and a health manager. He also has had formal training in art history. He paints realistic oil portraits, usually working long hours in his studio. He has exhibited at several group and one-man shows.

New Contemporary Artists and Galleries
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

1. Jerome Maggiore. Expressionistic paintings that engage intellectual senses.
2. Michael Sturdy. Abstract-expressionist painter and author.
3. Jerome Poitevin. Giclee, fine art inkjet and digital chromogenic prints.
4. Kalliope Amorphous. Conceptual self-portrait photographs.
5. Cyril Vandenbeusch. Eating time and food and photography.
6. Elin Bogomolnik. Palette knife oil paintings from Israel.
7. Amelia Miholca. Oil abstracts of color and light
8. Elizabeth Lynn Moon. Mystical jewelry.
9. Megan Coyle. Fine collage from portraiture to landscapes.

Gilbert Abric, Kevin Barr and Lisa Putman have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

Southern California Art Events
At the January San Pedro artwalk, one gallery featured bold, colorful paintings by Muriel Olguin. It was dramatically lit by projector lights focused on each artwork. Another gallery's exhibit consisted of side-by-side photos. One photo of each pair was of a famous work of art, and the other was a local San Pedro resident recreating the pose as closely as possible.

"Let There Be Light", a project of Phantom Galleries L.A., showed that the bad economy is good for the arts in one respect: temporary "phantom galleries" pop up all over the place in vacant properties. This time, the phantom galleries all consisted of light-themed installations meant to be viewed from the sidewalk through the windows of vacant storefronts. There were 25 locations, each of which contained the work of one to seven artists. This was a very cool experience. There were lots of multicolored neon lights, some kinetic sculptures, some video displays, and just about any medium you can imagine interacting with just about any form of light.

Ongoing is a very good Mercedes Matter exhibit at Pepperdine University's art museum. She's one of those artists whom nobody's heard of, but they should have.

In February 2010 please visit these art walks and gallery nights

* Feb 4, 2010 Santa Barbara Art Walk
* Feb 4, 2010 Laguna Beach First Thursdays Art Walk
* Feb 4, 2010 1st Thursday Downtown San Pedro
* Feb 4, 2010 El Paseo Artwalk (Palm Desert)
* Feb 4, 2010 Riverside Arts Walk
* Feb 5, 2010 First Fridays Ventura
* Feb 5, 2010 Claremont Village Art Walk
* Feb 5, 2010 First Fridays Long Beach
* Feb 6, 2010 Santa Ana Artwalk
* Feb 11, 2010 Downtown Los Angeles Artwalk
* Feb 13, 2010 Pomona 2nd Saturday Art Walk
* Feb 13, 2010 NELAart - Northeast L.A. Gallery Night
* Feb 13, 2010 Long Beach Art Walk
* Feb 20, 2010 Santiago Art District Art Walk (Santa Ana)
* Feb 26-28, 2010 Hillcrest Festival of Fine Arts
* Feb 27, 2010 Pomona Last Saturday Art Walk

For details, follow the links at: http://nanday.com/art

Lise Boucher

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan) — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 03:29:00 +0000

Happy New Year.
Lise Boucher is the January 2010 Digital Color Artist of the Month. Lise is a self-taught digital artist from Port Alberni, British Columbia, Canada. Lise paints and assists with the creation of theatrical displays. Lise also enjoys creating posters and pamphlets.

New Contemporary Artists and Galleries
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

1. Nadezhda Strelkina. Nadezhda's works are dreamlike images of angelic women that evoke emotion and spiritual feelings in the viewer. She paints in a most subtle manner and is especially known for her soft, flawless faces, delicate postures, and masterful translucent technique that captures feminine beauty.
2. A J Joji Alphonse. Born in a remote village in Kerala, a small state of India, Joji is a self taught still photographer of human life and nature.
3. Mehtab Ali. Mehtab specializes in portrait, still life, landscape and cultural paintings. He has proven himself in miniatures, portraits and calligraphy, using oil, pen and ink, pastels and water colors. His paintings depicting women in eastern dresses and in typical moods have attracted great attention.
4. Alessandro Iacopelli. Metal insects from Italy. Alessandro has perfected the technical assembly of metals.
5. Ratka Lugumerski. Ratka explores the conscious perception of environmental change. He finds symbols, such as pictures from magazines that belong to the sphere of marketing to compose intuitive concepts with completely new and often ironic meanings. He destroys and rearranges.
6. Massimo Romagnoli. Massimo is a painter and graphic designer from Italy. He creates black and white graphics, drip paintings, digital art and vector illustrations.
7. William Howard. William draws realistic works in charcoal and colored pencil. He pays such attention to detail that at first glance his drawings look like photographs. His subjects range from nautical themes, with a focus on lighthouses, to historical architecture and interiors.

Barbara Rose Guada, Philippe Benichou, Judy Puckett, Kevin Barr and Lisa Putman have added new artwork to their Digital Consciousness galleries http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml Guy Jean Genevier has added work at http://www.ohota-photo.com

Southern California Art Events
In January 2010 please visit these art walks and gallery nights

* Dec 5-Jan 15, 2010 Let There Be Light!, Long Beach
* Jan 2, 2010 Santa Ana Artwalk
* Jan 7, 2010 Santa Barbara Art Walk
* Jan 7, 2010 Laguna Beach First Thursdays Art Walk
* Jan 7, 2010 1st Thursday Downtown San Pedro
* Jan 7, 2010 El Paseo Artwalk (Palm Desert)
* Jan 7, 2010 Riverside Arts Walk
* Jan 9, 2010 Pomona 2nd Saturday Art Walk
* Jan 9, 2010 NELAart - Northeast L.A. Gallery Night
* Jan 9, 2010 Long Beach Art Walk
* Jan 14, 2010 Downtown Los Angeles Artwalk
* Jan 16, 2010 Miracle Mile Art Walk
* Jan 16, 2010 Santiago Art District Art Walk (Santa Ana)
* Jan 30, 2010 Pomona Last Saturday Art Walk

For details, follow the links at: http://nanday.com/art

Philippe Benichou

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:46:00 +0000

The December 2009 Digital Color Artist of the Month is Philippe Benichou. Born in French occupied Algeria in 1957, his family moved to Nantes, France, when he was just a small child. Philippe comes from a family of artists and began studying painting and art history as a youth with his late mother, artist Arlette Oger. He studied at the Sorbonne University, New York University and UCLA. Philippe formally studied and was greatly encouraged by well known art educator, artist and sculptor, Francis Coelho, in San Francisco, CA. In addition to being a painter, Philippe is a successful actor, voice over artist, director and acting coach in Hollywood.

Philippe describes his work as for the most part expressive: abstract and abstract expressionist with an intense and free use of color. He uses various media to produce unusual textures, shapes, compositions and color coordination. He believes color has a primitive healing effect provided it contains and aims at harmony.

New Contemporary Artists and Galleries
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

1. Leyla Murr. Stylistically diverse and visually powerful paintings reflect the artist's intuitive process and emotional involvement in the production of each work. Working in both total abstraction and abstracted representation, Murr imparts her distinctive color pallet and dynamic hand to a variety of subjects including geometric shapes, human figures, windswept landscapes, and still lifes.
2. Bo Davidsson. Landscapes and nature photography from Sweden.
3. Umpire Guevara Cesar. Abstract cityscapes from Belgium.
4. Danilo Verticelli. European conceptual aesthetics. Deconstructivism by getting deeply into interpretation of images and architecture. Through bright colors, smart nuances and realist subjects touched by contemporary facts and ways of live, he is able to get the observer into the painting in a very new Pop Art celebration.

Gilbert Abric, Judy Puckett, Robert Chami and Kevin Barr have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

Artistic Interaction
Digital Consciousness promotes interaction between artists. This newsletter is for artists to let the community know about new artwork or gallery exhibits or shows. Please post your news by the 20th of the month to http://digitalconsciousness.com/newslettersubmission.phtml Additionally, an art calendar listing Southern California Art Walks, Open Studio Tours, & Art Festivals can be found at: http://nanday.com/art

Ad-free Galleries With No Commission
Artists with Digital Consciousness Gallery Service can create and edit on-line galleries from a control panel. These galleries contain no ads and are among the most prominent pages on Digital Consciousness. Artists may sell artwork from their galleries free of commission. Gallery Service requires registration and $30 a year. Registration is free and registered artists may create an Artist Page without purchasing Gallery Service. Registered Artists can use the Edit link at the bottom of their Artist Page to edit their Artist Page or to upgrade to Gallery Service.

Dan Civa

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:09:00 +0000

The November 2009 Digital Color Artist of the Month is Dan Civa. Dan was born in Denmark in 1939. He paints animals, people and nature in warm colors. Long stays in the Far East and kin in Sri Lanka influence his works. Glowing pictures with motifs from Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Denmark depict experiences of colorful people in everyday life.

Dan is known as the painter of 'HumanAnimals', transgenetic motifs in paintings and drawings that symbolize the combination of human beings and animals. His ideas and inspiration for the HumanAnimals comes from a deep interest in science and research.

New Contemporary Artists and Galleries
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

1. Lynette Charlie Despanza. Soulful portraits.
2. April Kiessling. The flux and interaction between what is seen and unseen.
3. Jeanne-Marie Meyer. Map and photography collage.
4. Studio Raziel. Occult imagery.
5. Tibor Juhasz. Colored articulation of the purity and glow of passion.
6. Karen McNab. Still Life and florals from Canada.

Kevin Barr, Judy Puckett and Calico have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

Pasadena Art Night
Open for Pasadena Art Night and continuing through January was the Pasadena Museum of California Art survey of more than one hundred twenty works drawn from the oeuvre of the celebrated painter Wayne Thiebaud. With his penchant for dazzling sunlight and high-keyed color and a gift for painterly, sensuous handling of oils and other media, Thiebaud's paintings link high art with popular culture while conveying a sunny optimism that is quintessentially Californian. Also at Pasadena Art Night along with exhibits at many other institutions and museums was Mantong and Protong at Pasadena City College. There, material never before exhibited illuminated two of the twentieth century's most unusual theories of human origins and the artists who originated them, Richard Shaver and Stanislav Szukalski .

Long Beach SoundWalk
Many art projects were on display at the 2009 Long Beach Soundwalk. Sound of Silence consisted of a guy sweeping the sidewalk with a broom. He was tethered to electronic devices and several sets of headphones worn by Soundwalk goers. When the sweeper moved, the broom sensors created eerie sounds which played through the headphones. As he swept, the people attached to him by headphone cords moved along with him.

Another one consisted of upright hollow cylinders. Each cylinder held styrofoam pieces with strings stretched over them. At the base of each assembly was a little motor which was activated by the viewers. The motor played the strings, and the sounds could be heard when one put an ear near the styrofoam. The simplest piece was water-filled plastic containers, each with a hole in the bottom, hanging over metal cans and inverted bowls. Other than a few traditional musical instruments, this was the only non-electrical piece. An art calendar listing Southern California Art Walks, Open Studio Tours, & Art Festivals can be found at: http://nanday.com/art

Owen A. Kelly

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan) — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:02:00 +0000

The October 2009 Digital Color Artist of the Month is Owen Kelly. Owen built the Mutant Vehicle Polaroid Photo Booth at Burning Man 2009. It was a large outdoor photo studio for Mutant Vehicles. Mutant Vehicles, or art cars, are great creative achievements. They are vehicles and are driven like cars or trucks or carts or pulled like trailers, but they don't look at all like their original form. They even go through a jury like process by the festival which only licenses ones which are sufficiently mutated. Photo Booth greeters mingled with the artist and crew of each creation before it was photographed. They took time to appreciate the many many details in each art car. Next, a countdown to the opening of the shutter: 3, 2, 1 . . . open. The essence of each of the artists and their work then emerged in the long held poses they struck. Owen then exposed the last remaining Polaroid film of its type.

The Booth was extra large and grand. Huge black tarps were affixed to the vertical surface of a 4 story climbable scaffold. White fabrics were laced together and strung from cables that ran from the top of the scaffold to poles taller than telephone poles. Even vehicles with tall masts fit under this canopy. It was oriented to put the vehicles in the best light during the day and illuminated at night. The Booth was in its full undamaged glory for only a day or so. An antenna from a vehicle tore the canopy and then winds did further damage overnight. The damage was expected, as it was an integral part of its post-apocalyptic vintage-carne poster look.

The 2010 Mutant Vehicle Polaroid Booth is currently looking for sponsors aiming to build a little bigger next year -- 50 feet high and 80 feet wide. Plans are for a system scaffold that has greater rigidity and strength, and also a faster assembly and breakdown. There will be four different teams: one for construction, one for tear down, one for photography and one for greeting, processing and promotion.

Illuminated and Climbable Metal Sculptures
Also at the festival were a great number of climbable metal sculptures. Mentioned here are the Natural Selection Dome built by Jessue, the Amethyst Portal by Harlan, the Rocketship, the Slide and the Portal of Evolution. The Natural Selection Dome was a big uncovered steel geodesic dome. The struts averaged about 5 feet and were painted many different colors. The whole thing was lit with black lights from a dozen columns mounted around it. People climbed on it day and night for a week. The slope of the climb lessened closer to the top. The views were great, of the playa and of the other climbers. They hung on it, rightside up and upside down, from their feet, from silk and from ropes.

The Amethyst Portal was an indigo stellated dodecahedron constructed of wood and steel with an open interior space. Inside it was a subsonic sound device that emitted the deep frequencies. The Raygun Gothic Rocketship was an immersive large-scale installation consisting of a 40 foot tall metal rocketship and scaffold walkway. People climbed into the rocket and explored its interior chambers. The ship was set to launch. At launch time, fireworks went off and then there were plasma gas explosions of most unusual and vivid violets and greens. Then there was a fire and the launch was aborted. The astronaut jumped out of the ship onto the scaffold. He shot so many fireworks out of all parts of his body, front and back, legs and arms that the air about him was completely full of fire and color. He kept it up as he did somersaults down the walkway. The Slide, just like the name suggests, a slide, may have been the only thing bigger than the Photo Booth. Thousands of people climbed it and slid down, ten or more at a time. The Portal of Evolution was also big. It was formed with petal like steel plates from which sprung fallopian tubes and ovaries. Emerging from the top was a kinetic butterfly on which one could perch.

Autumn Lights LA
Autumn Lights LA 09 was a one day, 7pm-1am, event. Next year it will be expanded to a 3 day weekend event. It was at Pershing Square for the first time. The backdrop of skyscrapers in the midst of a revitalized re-aestheticized downtown LA was spectacular. It was like the Festival of Lights in Berlin and White Nights in St. Petersburg. A Manifestation of Collective Subconscious, a geodesic non-dome steel and canvas assembly by Collabo was the focal target of three projections. Sean Sobczak displayed an illuminated dragonfly and caterpillar sculpture. There was a man sized fish and balancing designs painted on a black lit carpet that took the light so perfectly it looked like illuminated sculpture. Newaje had advanced technology laser walls and fans visible across the entire square. Silvia Rigon projected Dipsy-Doodle, hand-drawn animation exploring the growth and emergence of organic patterns. A multi-colored glow radiated from lights moving under a small cargo parachute covered dome. The parachute was like semi-transparent silk.

Frogtown Art Walk
The artists of Elysian Valley (Frogtown) displayed the creativity and talent that flourishes in the industrial buildings along the LA River. Visitors wandered along the river led by glowing arrows, the sound of music and a trail of flickering lanterns. Steve Graziani had a group of steel sculptures in the from a creatures with large cubical heads. He also displayed wall and functional sculptures and will create unique pieces that fit any contemporary setting. He opened his sculpting studio in 2005 after a film industry career. The Michael McCall photo studio let people see and use its makeup and costume rooms. Gallery Frogtown was open with its many rooms turned into galleries. The living skyscraper works exuded a softening energy. A terrific list of Southern California Art Walks, Open Studio Tours & Art Festivals like these can be found at: http://DigitalConsciousness.net/directory/artcalendar.php See you there.

New Contemporary Artists and Galleries
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

1. Maria Beatrice. Polymer dolls and sculptures.
2. Jonhomer. Geometric shapes from architecture and demonstrates a mechanical intuition.
3. Robert Thomas. Realistic portraits and characters.
4. Lise Boucher. Digital orbs.
5. Philippe Benichou. Color coordinated for primitive healing.
6. Owen A Kelly. The Mutant Vehicle Polaroid Photo Booth.

Donna C. Willis, Moustafa Al Hatter, Jaff Seijas, Judy Puckett and Kevin Barr have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

Joan Myerson Shrager

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan) — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:14:00 +0000

The September 2009 Digital Color Artist of the Month is Joan Myerson Shrager. She has been a visual artist for over 30 years, working in acrylics, pastels, charcoal and other conventional media. In the last 10 years she has worked exclusively on the computer creating all of her paintings using complex software and then printing the work on fine art papers.

Shrager has exhibited in more than 75 juried, invitational and solo exhibitions. Her digital work is in the permanent collection of the University of Pennsylvania on exhibit at the Graduate School of Education. She is included in two texts printed by Harcourt Press and Ferguson Publishing illustrating digital art. Most recently her digital prints were shown at GFA, a Los Angeles gallery. She is also featured on many digital art web sites.

New Contemporary Artists and Galleries
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

Quan La Ba. Palette knife portraits from Vietnam.

S.K. Rajasekar. Abstract depictions of the space above the earth.

Ramesh Kher. Mixed media abstracts from India.

Samuel Monnier. Algorithmic art, patterns so complex that they could never have been imagined.

Moira Coon. Steampunk jewelry and frippery adornments.

Gabor Kruzsely. Stylized portraits from Hungary.

Adrian Sam. Art Deco nightscapes.

George Transcender. Socially conscious art.

Maja Sipilovic. Figurative drawing.

Mahenda Bhatt. Landscapes from Inida.

Igor Tarantul. Relief, three dimensional engraving and gold casting inlay.

Jean Francois Muller, Kevin Barr, Judy Puckett and Jaff Seijas have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

Evolution a Tangled Bank
The following artwork is being installed at the 2009 Black Rock Arts Festival, one of the most fascinating and least understood phenomena of our time. For more, use the Burning Man category of the Internet Art Directory. http://DigitalConsciousness.net/directory/brc.phtml

2:22 Amethyst Portal. A subsonic non-linear dynamic analog feedback device that produces frequencies in the range of brain waves. It is housed in an indigo colored 17 foot high stellated dodecahedron.

Vishnu's Dream. Vishnu reclines on a bed formed by the thousand-headed serpent Shesha and dreams the world into existence as a lotus flower that blossoms from his navel. The sculpture melds whirling images of the playa scene with live infrared images of visitors in a dark chamber.

Cubatron L5. A 3D LED light sculpture. It consists of 5 cubes, each made up of 1000 lights within an 8x8x8ft open aluminum frame, all on top of a 5ft high steel pipe platform.

Fire Of Fires. Encased in thirty-two vertical feet of clear polycarbonate sheeting, nine gas lamps come alive as a tornado of flame.

Incunabulum. Our rational minds tell us that we are an inconsequential part of a vast, uncaring universe; yet, we know, in another sense, that we are responsible for creating our own universe and that nothing exists outside our own experience.

Luminous Passage. Large flower-shaped light sculptures, ten on each side. The design of each flower-lamp becomes progressively more complex and a more vibrant and visually evolved flower form.

H.E.Ai.D. A collaborative, generative experience that culminates in awakening the sentience of a Human Energized Artificial intelligence Device.

Burninator GRID. A fire art installation consisting of a closely packed grid of large flame towers.

Triassic Heron. A large modular sculpture, part prehistoric bird and part oil derrick. At night its wings move with fire, illuminating the skeletal structure.

Jaff Seijas

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan) — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:15:00 +0000

The August 2009 Digital Color Artist of the Month is Jaff Seijas. Jaff works on paper and canvas. His paintings and drawings are products of a rich and unique imagination in pursuit of self-actualization. He currently resides in Paris, France, Santa Fe, New Mexico and Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

Jeff studied at the Atlanta College of Art and with Dutch artist Nan Hoover & William VanHettinga. He has had gallery showings since 1970. His work has been shown in New Jersey, Georgia, Oregon, Florida, the Carolinas, California and New Mexico. Also in Amsterdam, Munich and Paris. His Secret Lives Scrapbooks series, Aspects of the Masculine was exhibited at Gallery Nicholas Flamel in Paris this year.

New Contemporary Artists and Galleries
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

1. Jason Jenkins. Large scale dark deep thought surrealism.
2. Debra Bretton Robinson. Acrylics on canvas and collage on wood.
3. Jonathon Baker. Art pirate.
4. d.a.gordon dart. Contemporary American Primitive, illustrator and sculptor.
5. Nabakishore Chanda. Spontaneous expression of creative impulse.
6. Franco Anselmi. Abstract animals from Italy.

Eva Gyorffy, Bob Dornberg, Donna C. Willis, Judy Puckett and Kevin Barr have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

Southern California Art Calendar
Summer is a rich time filled with among other marvelous events, the Santa Barbara Solstice parade, Gallery Night Out (a new incarnation of the Miracle Mile Artwalk) the Laguna Beach Artwalk, the Sawdust Festival and the Pasadena Chalk Festival.

At the Pasadena Chalk Festival, large, beautiful, temporary artworks are created in chalk on the pavement. Some are original pieces, and others are reproductions of works such as famous paintings. Each artist created a smaller work on canvas, maybe a foot square, which was generally (but not always) a miniature version of the sidewalk chalk work. One artist, whose chalk creation was a reproduction of the Let It Be album cover, had a set of four minis at silent auction. Ringo's portrait was only bringing in about half as much as the other Beatles'.

A terrific list of Southern California Art Walks, Open Studio Tours, & Art Festivals can be found at: http://DigitalConsciousness.net/directory/artcalendar.php See you there.

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
At the Huntington, the American galleries have been expanded and completely reinstalled. There was even a new room with bold abstracts, quite unexpected for the Huntington. A girl was overheard critiquing a huge abstract Frankenthaler to her father: "That is not art!" The giant stinky flower (Amorphophallus titanum) had bloomed in the Huntington's conservatory a few weeks earlier. This was the third blooming ever at the Huntington, and one of a small number ever in the country.

Ad-free Galleries With No Commission
Artists with Digital Consciousness Gallery Service can create and edit on-line galleries from a control panel. These galleries contain no ads and are among the most prominent pages on Digital Consciousness. Artists may sell artwork from their galleries free of commission. Gallery Service requires registration and $30 a year. Registration is free and registered artists may create an Artist Page without purchasing Gallery Service. Registered Artists can use the Edit link at the bottom of their Artist Page to edit their Artist Page or to upgrade to Gallery Service.

Eva Gyorffy

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan) — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:29:00 +0000

The July 2009 Digital Color Artist of the Month is Eva Gyorffy. Eva was born in 1931 in Arad, Romania. She studied painting at the University of Fine Arts in Cluj, Romania. The art of Eva Gyorffy is expressionistic with signs of symbolism. Her portraits have a psychological content, and open up a deeper layer. Since she began working digitally in 1997, her work has become more colorful, without losing pictorial sensibility. One of her most appreciated experiences is redesigning oil paintings in the computer and giving them several different new expressions.

Works of Eva Gyorffy have been exhibited since 1957 at shows in Romania, the Netherlands, Hungary, Germany, Yugoslavia, and Italy. Also in museums in Arad and Timisoara, art books, television broadcasts and private collections throughout Europe, Israel, and North America. She illustrates the Hungarian paper of Arad and is the leading member of the Arad section of the Romanian Art Foundation and a member of the Hungarian Art Foundation.

New Contemporary Artists and Galleries
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

1. Mimmo Alfarone. Chalk pastel on wood.
2. Gregory Burke. Animals being seen as human.
3. Menachem Yaffe. Stability in a disordered world, and a love of color from Jerusalem.
4. Clint Simmons. Mystical qualities that underlie photographs.
5. Maria Cristina Faleroni. Semi-abstract figures from Argentina.
6. Sahar Aljajeh. Abstract still life from Syria.

Bob Dornberg and Judy Arline Puckett have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

Bob Dornberg

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan) — Sun, 24 May 2009 03:01:00 +0000

The June 2009 Digital Color Artist of the Month is Bob Dornberg. Dornberg was born in Los Angeles in 1940. He and his twin brother, Ken, had painted with their dad since an early age. Dornberg was inspired by Rempel in high school to explore juxtaposition, and by Elgart and Amato at UCLA to paint anything and to do it a lot. Over the last 12 years he has produced over 950 oil paintings. Images of his work appear on websites of poetry, in printed publications and on book covers.

His paintings develop composition through relations of shapes, dark and light patterns, rhythm and color relations. His subjects are slices of life development after Degas, Diebenkorn, Vuillard and Monet.

New Contemporary Artists and Galleries
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

1. Moira Buchanan. Explores personal interaction with the painting medium. She constantly adds and subtracts oil paint on the surface, whilst incorporating organic and figurative matter. This act of destruction and creation creates a paradox which captures the artist's subconscious and psyche.
2. Meg MacKenzie. An emerging photographer for a few years now. She studied art at York University.
3. Sajjad Ahmed. A visual artist living and working in Pakistan. He graduated from Beaconhouse National University, Lahore, Pakistan in 2007. In the short time of two years, his work has become sought after by international curators, institutions and art buyers.
4. Tom Repasky. A pioneer in digital fine art with a surrealist orientation. He has been producing works of intricate detail and thought provoking composition since 1995
5. Dutchartistjelke van Beekveld. Creator from the new art style -- spacingart. Born Eindhoven in the Netherlands province of North Brabant, he is an industrial and art academy trained painter

Eugene Becker, Judy Puckett, Joseph DiSipio, Calico, Kevin Barr, David Derr and Gilbert Abric have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

My uncle John died this month. An epitaph:


Which of the two, when God and John meet,
Will occupy—you ask—the judgment seat?
Sure, our old friend—each one of us replies—
Will justly dominate the Grand Assize:
He’ll seize the scepter and ascend the throne,
Claim the Almightys thunder for his own,
Trump the Last Trump, and the Last Post postpone,
Then, if his strong prerogative extends
To passing sentence on his sinful friends,
Thus shall we supplicate at Heaven’s high bar:
Be merciful! You made us what we are;
Our jokes, our joys, our hopes, our hatreds too,
The outrageous things we do, or want to do—
How much of all of them we owe to you!
Send us to Hell or Heaven or where you will,
Promise us only you’ll be with us still:
Heaven, without you, would be too dull to bear,
And Hell will not be Hell if you are there.

David Derr

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan) — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:31:00 +0000

David Derr
New Jersey artist David Derr is the May 2009 Digital Color Artist of the Month. David has been drawing since he was a small child. He attended the Art Students League in the 1970s and studied life drawing. His passion for life drawing continued as a primary focus for nearly 10 years while he made a living as an artists' model and freelance commercial artist. Derr heads up his own design agency, D2 Studios Inc. Commercial success has never dimmed, in fact, has brought into sharper focus, his love for fine arts, and his expression of deep personal imagery.

His images explore what it is to be an imaginative thinking human being. The visual arts, music, dance, literature, myths, mysticism, spirituality and the sciences as well as everyday life all contribute in the creation of his images. He creates paintings that not only reflect his thoughts but engage the viewer to look deeper into their own thoughts and find the depths to each piece that are not initially apparent. To David, painting is not about technical expertise, but about creating a space where both the creator and the viewers' creative thoughts are set free to explore unexpected paths. His works are created in oil, mixed media and digital forms.

New Contemporary Artists and Galleries
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

1. Kevin Rogerson. Rich, bold colors, texture and the effects of light and shadow.
2. Kim Leutwyler. Large scale figure paintings.
3. Jury Novikov. Realistic oils from the Ukraine.
4. Teddy Bozhinov. Pet and animal portraits from Bulgaria.
5. Hassan Hamroush. Cubist drawing.
6. Suman Kabiraj. Surrealistic narrative paintings from India.
7. Anny Cheong. Advertising design.
8. A Santos. Digital art, portraiture and image manipulation.
9. Shefqete Avdush Emini. Figurative abstract expressionism from Holland.

Joseph DiSipio, Judy Puckett, Eugene Becker, Kevin Barr and Calico have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml Joseph's new work uses infrared film, lith prints, tri-x film, frosted glass and selenium tones.

Dark Skies
Dark Skies is an annual Fire Art and burn festival held during the spring new moon near the Grand Canyon. Nightmare Nevada, Gurrwolf and Junior created the Harvesters to burn at the festival. They are three Icons each about twice the size of a man: the Creeper, the Reaper and the Collector. They were positioned in the Burn Bowl in front of the Pagoda Arch. The Creeper had fangs and triangle and square teeth, and an elongated arm stretched out way in front of him all the way to the ground. The Reaper held a scythe on a long pole that extended far above his head. The Collector held a sickle and had pumpkin like head with a green stem growing out of it. The papier-mache in the work was glazed in places so that parts of the sculptures looked to be metal. The Harvesters were dressed in black corduroy shirts and green burlap scarves and hoods. They had elbows and knees and even joints in their fingers and toes all bent in a balanced way.

The Harvesters burned before midnight Saturday. The paper and paint flashed and the cloth went up in flame leaving burning wood skeletons. Their skeletons were wood, built bone by bone. This made their skeletons more in common with humans than their outsides, and they did look more human after burning for a while, but still monstrous. The Reaper's scythe collapsed in the inferno, landing on the Creeper and bringing it down. The Collector's rib cage and mask glowed orange. His head fell off and rolled in front of us. Gurrwolf reached for the head, picked it up by a stick sticking out of it and held it aloft triumphantly as it continued to burn.

The disassembled Pagoda Arch burned pre-dawn Sunday. It was built by Pallet Man. It was 16 feet high and 20 feet wide. It was 65 pallets in the making. It looked like Stonehenge. It made seven piles of pallets stacked 1-3 high with lots of extra wood to keep the bonfires going. People rode a bicycle around the bonfires while they were burning.

Artistic Interaction
The Santa Fe Art Colony held its 20th annual Open Studio event on the first weekend in May. That weekend has been designated as the permanent Open Studio date, when residents of the colony open their private studios to the public. Upcoming Southern California Art Walks, Open Studio Tours & Art Festivals can be found on the Digital Consciousness Art Calendar. http://DigitalConsciousness.net/directory/artcalendar.php

Ad-free Galleries With No Commission
Artists with Digital Consciousness Gallery Service can create and edit on-line galleries from a control panel. These galleries contain no ads and are among the most prominent pages on Digital Consciousness. Artists may sell artwork from their galleries free of commission. Gallery Service requires registration and $30 a year. Registration is free and registered artists may create an Artist Page without purchasing Gallery Service. Registered Artists can use the Edit link at the bottom of their Artist Page to edit their Artist Page or to upgrade to Gallery Service.

Judy Puckett

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:41:00 +0000

Judy Arline Puckett is the April 2009 Digital Color Artist of the Month. Judy is a digital artist and photographer residing in Louisiana. She is also a creative writer, poet and a lover of jazz and blues music.

Her subject is often herself. Her work is a self reflection. Judy believes each of us should find the inner beauty within ourselves.

New Contemporary Artists and Galleries
We now tweet each new artist who registers with Digital Consciousness with up to 140 characters at http://twitter.com/DigitalCo To view work from an artist, follow the link in the tweet, or enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see the most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/ The following artists registered in the last month:

1. Rona Stelzer. Bright, bold, vibrant and visual acrylic paintings.
2. Nataly Samojlova. Painting, illustration and art photography.
3. Helen Moulinos. Portraits that capture what the subject is feeling at
a moment in time.
4. Rachel Lewis. Landscape photography that showcases the beauty of Britain's natural environments.
5. Laura Fowler. Bright fun acrylics from Australia.
6. Marthino Dias. Social and political criticism from Portugal.
7. Olga Levitas. Impressionistic oil landscapes from Canada.
8. Kimber Bosse. Gemstone, silver, gold, and clay sculptures.
9. Forest King. Oil portraits; respectful, yet out there enough to be "Wyoming alternative".

Shepard Fairey, Jason Jenkins, Joseph DiSipio, Gilbert Abric, and Kevin Barr have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

Art exhibits, mostly in the March Pasadena Art Night (PAN)
The work of Edward Biberman, a famous California artist, and some Israeli-Californian artists, including a multimedia video installation of a meteor shower are on exhibit at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park. Biberman taught at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena which coincidentally is in the PAN.

The Norton Simon is a reliable good part of any PAN. Curators' comments about the Don Bachardy portrait of Norton Simon and the Matisse love poems exhibit were on podcasts which were available in advance.

The highlight of PAN was the Pasadena Museum of California Art. The electron microscopy exhibit was beautiful, It included a photo of a human embryonic stem cell. The Data + Art: Science and Art in the Age of Information exhibit was amazing. It included:

1. Little robots who sought out bright lights and left marks on paper as they traveled.
2. A large image of a dollar bill which had been assembled by an artist/supervisor who portioned it into tiny pieces. He subcontracted with 10,000 internet users, each of whom copied one piece. They only knew their own portion and were unaware of the larger project. Each person was paid a penny, so the total labor cost was $100.
3. A video/laser installation which scanned viewers and created beautiful and lingering images on large screens.

A Symphony rehearsal was open to the public. There was also live music at the Jazz Institute and the One Colorado stage. Also showcasing their exhibits at PAN were the Pacific Asia Museum, the Armory, the Pasadena Museum of History, Pasadena City College and the Shumei Arts Council. Look for the next PAN and other Southern California Art Walks, Open Studio Tours, & Art Festivals on our art calendar at: http://DigitalConsciousness.net/directory/artcalendar.php

Jason Jenkins

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan) — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 04:01:00 +0000

Jason Jenkins
Jason Jenkins is the March 2009 Digital Color Artist of the Month. Jason was born and raised in Mississippi. He has been drawing and painting all his life. His work mixes realism and overflowing imagination with a unique style of bold, vibrant and energetic paintings.

Jason does live paintings alongside bands to create spectacular visual shows. As of late he is touring the galleries throughout the Jackson metro area such as The Ink Spot, The Artichoke Gallery and the One Blu Wall gallery. He has most recently been painting with the local bands around, and out of, town. He hopes to one day tour the world doing this.

New Contemporary Artists
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

1. Geoff Gove. Magazine cover photography.
2. Jason Jenkins. Live painting to Mississippi bands.
3. Christian Bolt. Sculpture from Switzerland.
4. Kenneth Dinkel. Abstracts and landscapes.
5. Beatrice Feo. Artist and director for contemporary art spaces in Italy.
6. Barbara Jaskiewicz. Cityscapes and landscapes from Poland.
7. Alok Badal. Actor from India.
8. Glenn Jacques. Commercial painter and sculptor.
9. Robert Martin. Freelance digital artist.
10. Adam Pakurar. Abstracts from Austria.
11. Suthirak Chantragun. Painterly style abstracts from Thailand.

Joseph DiSipio
Joseph DiSipio has added new artwork to his galleries. http://digitalconsciousness.com/galleries/JosephDiSipio/

Nicholas Caputi
Long time Digital Consciousness artist, Nicholas Caputi, passed away on January 17, 2009. Some of Nicholas' art will be sold at Clar's auction house in Oakland, California on March 7 and 8.

Shepard Fairey

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan) — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 05:54:00 +0000

Shepard Fairey
Shepard Fairey is the February 2009 Digital Color Artist of the Month. Frank Shepard Fairey (born 15 February 1970 in Charleston, South Carolina) emerged from the skateboarding scene. He became known initially for his "André the Giant Has a Posse" sticker campaign. The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston calls him one of today's best known and most influential street artists. He usually omits his first name.

Fairey created a series of posters supporting Barack Obama's candidacy for President in 2008, including the iconic "HOPE" portrait. Fairey distributed a staggering 300,000 stickers and 500,000 posters during the election campaign, funding his grassroots electioneering through poster and fine art sales. "I just put all that money back into making more stuff, so I didn't keep any of the Obama money," said Fariey in a December 2008 interview.

Fairey created the portrait of Barack Obama that TIME Magazine used as the cover art for its 2008 Person of the Year edition issue. His influence, particularly with Obama's presidential campaign, contributed to him being named a Person of the Year 2008 by GQ Magazine. In January 2009, the 'HOPE' image was acquired by the US National Portrait Gallery, and became part of the permanent collection. It was unveiled and put on display at the Gallery on January 17, 2009. http://RenownedArt.com/prints.php?a=Shepard+Fairey

Burning Man Art Grants
The deadline for submitting an art grant proposal for Burning Man 2009 is February 1. Every year Burning Man issues a small number of grants for the purpose of partially funding specific art projects. These grants are awarded primarily for interactive art that is based on the annual art theme In 2009 it is Evolution. http://www.BurningMan.com/installations/art_guidelines.html

New Contemporary Artists and Galleries
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

1. Jesus Orendain. Nudes, flora, landscapes, texture and the subconscious.
2. Laura Knight. Handcut steel for catching the light.
3. Shane Crotty. Abstract imagery from Ireland.
4. Slava Deryuga. American landscape photography.
5. Sangeeta Pathak. Drawings of faces in conflict, from India.
6. Steve Fielding. Pen and ink portraits from England.
7. Ramesh Aanadh. Watercolors from India.

Gilbert Abric
Gilbert Abric has added a new gallery: http://digitalconsciousness.com/galleries/ABRICGilbert/Monuments.phtml

Artistic Interaction
Digital Consciousness promotes interaction between artists. Everyone is invited to join the Facebook Digital Consciousness Artists Group http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=38563776510 Both our forum ( http://DigitalConsciousness.net/forum/ ) and the facebook group are great places to post, or read about, new artwork or gallery exhibits or shows. Additionally, an art calendar listing Southern California Art Walks, Open Studio Tours, & Art Festivals can be found at: http://DigitalConsciousness.net/directory/artcalendar.php

Ad-free Galleries With No Commission
Artists with Digital Consciousness Gallery Service can create and edit on-line galleries from a control panel. These galleries contain no ads and are among the most prominent pages on Digital Consciousness. Artists may sell artwork from their galleries free of commission. Gallery Service requires registration and $30 a year. Registration is free and registered artists may create an Artist Page without purchasing Gallery Service. Registered Artists can use the Edit link at the bottom of their Artist Page to edit their Artist Page or to upgrade to Gallery Service.

Happy New Year

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan) — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 07:15:00 +0000

Happy New Year
Please imagine here a whimsical animated feel-good greeting that will bring you good cheer for all of 2009.

New Contemporary Artists and Galleries
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

1. Dan Rohrmann. Unrealistic landscapes from Romania.
2. Albert Sellaman. Digital abstracts from Australia.
3. Russell Scott-Skinner. Cubistic landscapes from the UK.
4. Aniello Scannapieco. Drawing and painting from Salerno, Italy.
5. Irene Bou. Outsider art from Spain.

Gilbert Abric and Jose Carvalhosa have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

Artistic Interaction
Digital Consciousness promotes interaction between artists. Everyone is invited to join the Facebook Digital Consciousness Artists Group http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=38563776510 Both our forum and facebook group are great places to post, or read about, new artwork or gallery exhibits or shows. Additionally, an art calendar listing Southern California Art Walks, Open Studio Tours, & Art Festivals can be found at: http://DigitalConsciousness.net/directory/artcalendar.php

Digital Consciousness Facebook Group

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan) — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:39:00 +0000

Happy Thanksgiving
Let us be thankful for the gentleness around us when we are quiet.

Digital Consciousness Facebook Group
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=38563776510 Everyone is invited to join the Facebook Digital Consciousness Artists Group. It promotes global recognition and interaction between artists. It is a great place to post, or read about, new artwork or gallery exhibits and shows. Also, about artwalks or festivals you have participated in or have been to.

Elizabeth Hack
Elizabeth Hack is the December 2008 Digital Color Artist of the Month. Her work consists of inner landscapes. She has created a series of paintings known as the Wave Series. Adding paint and ink to the canvas or paper, she feels the fire or the sea. Excavating through the composition, her paintings express energy and spirit.

The paintings of Elizabeth Hack have been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries throughout California, including the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara; the University of California in Berkeley at the ASUC Studio and the Heller Gallery; the Commonwealth Club Gallery in San Francisco; the Hayward Arts Council Gallery in Hayward; Gloria Delson Fine Art; the Soolip Gallery in West Hollywood; the Berkeley Art Center Gallery in Berkeley; Carol Dabb Fine Art; the Ashkenazy Gallery in Los Angeles; and the Orlando Gallery in Sherman Oaks.

Joseph DiSipio
Joseph DiSipio has a Lith print photography show in Santa Barbara. The opening reception is 5-8ish, December 4th during the Santa Barbara First Thursday Art Walk. It is at the Bookden at 15 E. Anapamu. He hopes to see you there. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/galleries/JosephDiSipio/

Southern California Art Walks
A continuously updated art calendar can be found at: http://DigitalConsciousness.net/directory/artcalendar.php Details about many spectacular monthly artwalks can be found there. The Santa Barbara, Laguna Beach, San Pedro, Downtown L.A., Palm Desert, Santa Ana, Pomona, Long Beach, Miracle Mile and Santiago artwalks all occur monthly. Also on the December calendar are the Ventura and Long Beach First Fridays (coordinated gallery openings), the Northeast L.A. Gallery Night and the Woodland Hills Rotary Club Arts & Crafts Faire.

New Contemporary Artists and Galleries
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/
Wojciech Ukianski. Abstract sculpture from Poland.
Kombizz. Macro photography: landscape, old and new architecture.
Marco Battaglini. Mechanical creativity from Costa Rica.
Jane E Porter. Visionary portraits from Scotland.
Nyugen Smith. Symbolic sculpture.
Jamie Thibault. Hardwood and Tagua and Corozo Nut sculpture.
Cedric Mnich. TradeArt. Complex mathematics and profit.
Warrior Richardson. Music and sports caricactures.
Jaclyn Brine. Realistic watercolors.
Hiroko Sakai. Surrealistic oils.
Joseph DiSipio, Gilbert Abric, Nathan Brusovani and Moses Masoko have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

Moses Masoko

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan) — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:40:00 +0000

Moses Masoko
Moses Masoko is the November 2008 Digital Color Artist of the Month. Moses was born in South Africa in 1979. Inspired by Picasso, Ben Macala and Gerald Sekoto, he started drawing and painting at an early age. In 2000 he studied fabric painting, sculpting and screen printing, in 2001-2004 printmaking and in 2005 graphic design and flexography printing.

Currently Moses paints geometric shapes in water color. He also works as a curator at Gerald A Lee gallery.

New Contemporary Artists and Galleries
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

Laviniu M. Draghici. Glass paintings from Denmark.
Fejzi Ali Beqiri. The invisible side of the universe from Italy.
Tomaselli Emilio. Interior design and architecture.
Charles Andraos. Mystical oils from Lebanon.
Stephen Shooster. Music inspired cubistic watercolors.
Andre Pourtales. Impressionistic oils from France.
Osvaldo Cibils. Digital art and drawing from Italy.
Darla Farner. Watercolor in motion.
Gillie and Marc Schattner. Husband and wife collectively on the same pieces.
John Mark. Landscapes and nature.
Danila Altmark. Personalized artworks.
Radomir Djukanovic. Abstract geometry from Serbia.
Calico. Photographs from SoCalDeCom.

Joseph DiSipio, Kevin Barr and Calico have added new artwork to their galleries.http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

Ventura Art Walk
The fall Ventura art walk included gifted artists at the Stoneworks. Also of note was the installation called "Tubular Zen" with five black pillars which emit light and sound when buttons on them are pressed. An art calendar listing Southern California Art Walks, Open Studio Tours, & Art Festivals can be found at:http://DigitalConsciousness.net/directory/artcalendar.php

SoCalDeCom
Pirates shot Cabbage Patch dolls and footballs from an air cannon over the Dawnship. The Dawnship was a big Bedouin tent flying Jolly Rogers. The event took everyday items and changed their identity. It brought about new perceptions causing people to question how to see, to re-examine and to re-invent.

On the hill was Hatfield's illuminated Flying Saucer. From its control panel one could program the lighting pattern. The saucer as a symbol of aliens landing on earth could not be suppressed. Yet, beliefs and circumstances about them could be changed.

The Living Room by Taz and Cooper was both an art piece and a chill space. Was it a living room or not? On one hand it had the feel of a living room, because there were two doors, a window, a framed 2D piece of art and miscellaneous furniture. On the other hand there were NO WALLS! Probably was a living room because the couch and chair were really comfortable.

Emerald Portals in San Francisco
From Oct. 31 to Nov. 2. the Emerald Portals art installation by Harlan Emil Gruber will be on public display free of charge in conjunction with the 2012 Conference. The precise location is the Fort Mason Center at the intersection of Marina Boulevard and Buchanan Street in the Marina district. There is no street address. 800-984-0897 http://www.2012conference.org They incorporate geometry, sound and color to provide an interactive environment. The intention is to provide a portal to the vibrational dimension of the Earth and the participant's energy bodies. Once a vibrational alignment is achieved between personal, planetary and galactic, a harmonious shift of dimensions can take place.

Jett Vivere

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan) — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:32:00 +0000

Jett Vivere
Jett Vivere is the October 2008 Digital Color Artist of the Month. Jett was born 1987 in Paisley and raised in Ayrshire, on the west coast of Scotland. With a history of art in the family, Vivere took an interest in art at a young age and has been a keen artist ever since. After studying fine art and having successful end of year shows and exhibitions in Glasgow and Edinburgh she has embarked on a career as an artist with work on exhibition in various galleries. She has been influenced by many artists including Peter Howson, Gerard Burns, Jackson Pollock, and Andy Warhol.

Vivere’s work, like the artists who inspire her, is unique, stylish and quirky. Unafraid of creating bold images that make a visual statement, she chooses color wisely, using it to create a bigger impact on a large scale. When painting, Vivere uses oil bars for their flexibility and greater control than can be achieved by the direct application of the oils by hand. The simplicity of the lines and marks on the canvas belies the work and preparation required to produce such dramatic images.

Long Beach SoundWalk
Among the exhibits at the September 2008 Long Beach SoundWalk were:
* A room filled with about a dozen roundish sculptures hanging from the ceiling. Each is a bundle of electronics and each emits different soft sounds.
* A Tower of Babel sculpture. You speak or make noises into the nearby microphone, and the sculpture distorts and echoes the sound, mixing it with previous sounds.
* Household percussion jams, where people play mostly pots and pans, but other household items also.
* A station where you select a musical work and listen to it through headphones. The piece is distorted according to the ambient sound level in the room. The quieter the room, the more distorted the sound is.
* Laptop computers hanging by wires from the ceiling. Participants swing the computers, which have motion sensors and play sounds based on their motions.
* Gossip. Two pairs of nude female mannequins separated by some distance on the sidewalk. Tell a juicy secret to one pair, and it's broadcast from the other pair.
* An installation which translates the shape of mountain peaks into sounds. Hundreds of photos of Colorado mountains were digitally traced. These outlines, which resemble the shape of audio waves, were imported into an audio editor. The resulting low register audio waves resemble the rumbling of the earth itself. The installation displays the mountain photo and the wave form, which is traced through as the sound plays.
* A room with four large drums in front of loud amplified sounds. Ping pong balls which are suspended on strings from the ceiling bounce on the vibrating drum heads.
* A virtual maze in which the "walls" are merely sounds which you hear through the large stuffed toy mouse-head headphones you wear. This was called "Mice pace" (get it?).
An art calendar listing Southern California Art Walks, Open Studio Tours, & Art Festivals can be found at: http://DigitalConsciousness.net/directory/artcalendar.php

New Contemporary Artists and Galleries
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/
Doriana Rada. Spiritual art from Albania.
Taylor Denis. Artist and author from Sweden.
Richard Whincop. Realistic oils from the U.K.
Gilbert Abric, Moustafa Al Hatter, Joseph DiSipio, Kevin Barr, Donna Willis and Nirvana Blues have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

Ad-free Galleries With No Commission
Artists with Digital Consciousness Gallery Service can create and edit on-line galleries from a control panel. These galleries contain no ads and are among the most prominent pages on Digital Consciousness. Artists may sell artwork from their galleries free of commission. Gallery Service requires registration and $30 a year. Registration is free and registered artists may create an Artist Page without purchasing Gallery Service. Registered Artists can use the Edit link at the bottom of their Artist Page to edit their Artist Page or to upgrade to Gallery Service.

Burning Man 2008

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan) — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:59:00 +0000

Burning Man is an annual week long arts festival that takes place in the Black Rock desert in Nevada. This issue of the newsletter describes just a few of the installations there.

Tantalus
Tantalus is a life-size stroboscopic zoetrope. The mechanism produces an illusion of action from a succession of static pieces. It tells the tale of Tantalus, who stole ambrosia from the Gods. His punishment was to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches. Whenever he reached for the fruit, the branches raised his intended meal from his grasp. The Tantalus zoetrope at Burning Man presents a revolving Uncle Sam hat. A man's arm reaches for an apple, or golden watch. The object goes up and down, but it is always just out of reach.

Tantalus is the creation of Peter Hudson, a San Francisco visual artist who has installed zoetropes at Burning Man since 2000. In 2000, Playa Swimmers was featured in a Time Magazine article about the art of Burning Man and in filmmaker Renea Robert's award-winning documentary, Gifting It. In 2001, Possession, a collection of six hands strategically placed on a model. In 2002, Sisyphish which depicts strobe-lighted swimmers in motion. In 2004, Deeper; in 2007 Homouroboros and this year Tantalus. Peter Hudson is the September 2008 Digital Color Artist of the Month. http://RenownedArt.com/digitalcolor/

Babylon
The largest installation was Babylon, a 10-story steel frame tower rising 100 feet into the sky, with a stairwell to the top. It was built by union workers out of recycled materials to specifications that allowed for tear down. The festival is a "leave no trace" event, so everything is temporary. The process of quickly and cleanly building and tearing down a structure so big it would be fair to call it a skyscraper is in itself a work of art.

Brainfire
A few hours after dark the artist himself fired up the structure releasing fuel into the ceiling of a small open building. In calm conditions there is mesmerizing, creeping, undulating fire suspended overhead. In windy conditions there is still a partial coating of the fire just beneath the ceiling.

The Apocalypse Lounge Dinosaur Spider
This is a gigantic mechanical beast that looks like a dinosaur, but has eight legs so may be a spider. Three years in the making, it is powered by a single truck motor geared up enough to move the 7 ton object. It tromped across the festival straining to make a step, but doing it, pausing and then making the next. It was two stories high and people climb up and ride on the top story. It cannot turn. It makes loud thumps as it goes and stirs up dust as it pounds the earth.

Bummer
A super size Humvee measuring 38 feet long x 18 feet wide x 16 feet high. Half of the Hummer was painted in military khaki and the other half in bright sporty colors. The headlights were bright enough to bring day to night. The taillights were a shadow show.

Altered State
A symbol of the United States Capitol becomes a mirage of mythical creatures fabricated of elaborately carved white steel. Each cut is rendered in the archetypal graphic style of Pacific Northwest Coast Indian imagery. Gymnasts climbed the interior swing and as intended, a government building was transformed into an Altered State.

Temple of Community
A thirty-foot-high rendition of an origami crane. On the playa, the crane symbolizes the act of letting go â€“ of people, places, feelings, ideas â€“ making wishes, discovering hope, finding peace, and building the wisdom, happiness and longevity of a community that is united in this experience.

Shiva Vista
A circular fire installation with an elevated performance platform in the center. Sixteen large propane guns fire in rhythmic sequences while fire performers, dancers and musicians play along with them. Twelve of the guns are arranged in a 100 foot circle and four more are located at the corners of the platform, controlled from an elevated platform just outside of the circle. It is a place where humans and machines enter into a fusion of fire, movement and sound.

Flamethrower Shooting Gallery
Modeled after a county fair-style shooting gallery, this provides a new twist on a long-standing American tradition and pokes gentle fun at the American fascination with firearms and personal power, as well as the Burning Man fascination with fire and radical self expression. It does this by allowing and encouraging participants to literally play with fire and shoot things.

Emerald Portal
The Emerald Portal was originally made for Burning Man 2006. It is based on 3-dimensional sacred geometry heart chakra colors and incorporates the Quasar Wave Transducer, a subsonic nonlinear dynamic analog feedback device. It is made of specially painted plywood and has seating both within the lower area and on a raised central platform. The outline is a steel tubing version that clearly shows the geometry of the structure and can be climbed on. It catalyzes a personal connection to the Emerald within the participant's heart chakra and facilitates a connection to the Earth and Galaxy's energy bodies.

New Contemporary Artists and Galleries
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

1. John Torode. Abstract expressionism
2. James Faulkner. Digital collage.
3. Tony Blue. Blutography art, a form of photo-illustration.
4. Cynthia Fusco. Landscape and nature photography.
5. Lewis Liu. Reproduction of famous oil paintings.
6. Liz Rogers. Transparent watercolors.
7. Paul Bonnie Kent. Brilliant abstracts and other offerings from Emilia Romagna, Italy.
8. J P McLaughlin. Image creation from Scotland.
9. Jett Vivere. Dramatic impressionistic oils from Ayrshire, Scotland.
10. Rollo West. Oil and colored pencil animals and wildlife.
11. Cody Wilkerson. Digital graphic photography.
12. Peter Hudson. Life-size stroboscopic zoetropes.
13. Kristina Wentzell. Landscapes and florals.

Gilbert Abric, Kevin Barr and Nicholas Caputi have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

Ad-free Galleries With No Commission
Artists with Digital Consciousness Gallery Service can create and edit on-line galleries from a control panel. These galleries contain no ads and are among the most prominent pages on Digital Consciousness. Artists may sell artwork from their galleries free of commission. Gallery Service requires registration and $30 a year. Registration is free and registered artists may create an Artist Page without purchasing Gallery Service. Registered Artists can use the Edit link at the bottom of their Artist Page to edit their Artist Page or to upgrade to Gallery Service.

Laura Perry-Eklund

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan) — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:04:00 +0000

Laura Perry-Eklund
Laura Perry-Eklund is the August 2008 Digital Color Artist of the Month. Laura is an abstract artist from Olive Hill, Kentucky. Growing up in the heart of Appalachia she understands that happiness comes from the simple, natural things in life. Her interests have always been in the natural world, art and psychic phenomena from which she summons artistic visions.

Her creations are outbursts from these visions. She has to feel completely free from everything to create and so, during several periods in her life has lived in isolation. She paints using the skills and knowledge of a trained artist. She pulls the paint and color into the composition to achieve unity. The paint will do what she wants it to do. http://RenownedArt.com/digitalcolor/

New Contemporary Artists and Galleries
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

Jean Francois Muller. Haitian influenced landscape abstracts.

Lara Agnes Szabo. Harpist from Hungary

Bryan Crump. Magazine cover photography.

Ana Maria Barbos. Plastic artist from Romania who creates colorful landscape themes.

Stefania Vassura. Photography from Italy.

Miro Gabriele. Ecology photography from Italy.

Paola González Muñoz. Expressionistic mixed media from Mexico.

John Lathram. The transhumanist experience.

S. Shatrughan Gupta. Impressionistic cityscapes from India.

Zaher El-Bizri. Plastic and watercolor artist influenced by the medieval quarters of the ancient Lebanese port city of Sidon.

Joseph Gooders. Abstract light and color photography from the UK.

Mmoses Masoko. Picasso influenced watercolors from South Africa.

Nicholas Capote has added new artwork to his galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

Glow Dusk to Dawn
On July 19 a huge crowd turned out to view art installations in Santa Monica. Among them, seemingly breathing constructions from Shih Chieh Huang. His works, about a dozen of them, each about the size of a person, dangled above the path under the pier. They incorporated plastic bags and fans that turned on and off so that the sculptures expanded and contracted to glowing illumination. Look for Glow 2009 and for more immediate Southern California Art Walks, Open Studio Tours, & Art Festivals on the Art Calendar. http://DigitalConsciousness.net/directory/artcalendar.php

First Friday Vegas
On the First Friday of most months, galleries in the Art District in Las Vegas, just North of the Strip, host receptions for their artists. Free trollies run between The Arts Factory, the center of it all, the Commerce Street Studios and other points. http://firstfriday-lasvegas.org/

Guardian of Eden
Following its debut at the 2007 Burning Man festival, the Nevada Museum of Art is pleased to present Guardian of Eden, a large-scale, outdoor sculpture by New York–based artist Kate Raudenbush. The intricately carved, 12-petal lotus flower spans over 19 feet in diameter and is inspired by Hindu and Egyptian creation myths, Buddhist symbolism, and the ancient symbol of the Flower of Life. http://www.nevadaart.org/exhibitions/exhibition_display.php?id=98

Susan J. Sauerbrun

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:06:00 +0000

Susan J. Sauerbrun is participating in the

183rd Annual Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art

at the

National Academy Museum

1083 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY

It is an honor to be included in this show. It runs until Sept 7th.

For further information please go to

http://www.SusanJSauerbrun.com/pressroom.html